Why should you care if Bolivia goes green?
Bolivia, in the heart of South America, and far from being considered a "large" country, is nevertheless home to 40% of the world's total biodiversity! Because of this, alterations to ecosystems, the loss of forests (the primary manner in which Bolivia contributes to global warming), and the contamination and loss of water resources in Bolivia do have an effect on the Earth's climate.
What Bella and WWF Bolivia are doing
BoliviaBella.com is working very actively with WWF Bolivia, the conservation agency, to inform about climate change and its consequences, and environmental conservation efforts being carried out in the Bolivian Amazon and the Bolivian Pantanal - the world's most important forest and the world's largest wetland area.We're working hand in hand to bring you information on how you can participate, actions you can take no matter where you live, and efforts being made to create awareness of this problem. Visit our wildlife pages, contributed by WWF Bolivia, to learn more about some of our beautiful fauna and its conservation status (or degree of endangerment). Visit the WWF Bolivia page on BoliviaBella.com to read about the projets WWF is working on in Bolivia. Near the bottom of this page, you'll also find dozens of articles WWF Bolivia contributes so you can stay informed. Visit our page on Earth Hour, a WWF initiative worldwide. Santa Cruz, Bolivia was the first city in South America to take part in what has now become a huge yearly event. Download the Pandilla Pantanera children's magazine to teach and/or learn about Bolivia's Pantanal region. Bolivian children use it to learn about how to reduce their footprint on the Earth. In addition, WWF Bolivia and BoliviaBella.com are now working together to create an entirely new section on climate change and it's consequences (and ways we can all help mitigate it). It's currently under construction and will be available soon. What Bella and Green Hearts Project are doing
The Green Hearts Project is an initiative that began in the city of Tarija, in southern Bolivia. Tarija is Bolivia's beautiful wine country and is known for its gorgeous flowers as well. However, a portion of Bolivia's Chaco region, one of the driest regions on Earth, is also found in Tarija.GHP is a volunteer social movement currently working with other Bolivian agencies, Bolivia's agricultural industry, and various indigenous groups to set aside vast areas for forest reserves, as well as areas that are already degraded for reforestation. Most of GHP's materials have not been translated to English yet. BoliviaBella.com is working to help translate some of the mor important information about this project to English so you can learn about it and participate in helping accomplish these very important objectives. One of Green Heart Project's very innovative projects is to reforest huge reserves with trees planted in the shape of hearts. Imagine if you will, a 5000-hectare stand of tropical forest visible from space! - in the shape of an enormous green heart. GHP also works locally in Tarija with school-aged children to create environmental awareness. The children learn about the importance of keeping our Earth healthy and clean, and of taking steps to reduce our footprint on nature. They learn about important actions they can take, at school and in their homes to ensure they and their families don't contribute to climate change and they plant tree seedlings which ultimately become a part of the Green Hearts forest reserves. BoliviaBella.com is hosting the Green Hearts Project page on this site and has translated a brief summary about this program into English. We're taking actions to build the Green Hearts website (hosted on BoliviaBella) which will soon include much more detailed information on GHP projects and actions and how you can help out. 2010 is going to be a busy year of green growth! You can show your support by downloading a Green Hearts Project link and placing it on your website or blog. It's easy! Just choose a link and copy and paste the code we've provided. In addition, you can send this beautiful Green Hearts video as an ecard. It contains beautiful images of Bolivia and some little known facts about how important Bolivia's environment is to the rest of the world. Visit the Green Hearts Project online gift shop, a part of Bella Store. Your purchase will help us support these important actions. It DOES affect you, no matter where you live. We're working voluntarily online and offline with Green Hearts Project to help promote these and create other innovative projects and actions. Why is BoliviaBella doing this?It's not alright for each of us to expect our governments, international organizations, or simply other individuals to take action. This is a serious problem and each and every one of us MUST be involved and actively work to reduce the amount of damage we are doing. It's time we took steps each and every day, making REAL changes in our DAILY living, as individuals.We love Bolivia and we love our Earth. There are things taking place in Bolivia that make it easy to see that global warming is a very extensive and real threat. Our climate is changing and not for the better. Our glaciers and mountain snowcaps are melting and are visibly reduced in size, some lakes and lagoons have dried up completely, forests are being cleared at alarming rates, and large regions of Bolivia are experiencing some of the worst drought conditions ever seen. While Bolivia's responsibility for climate change and global warming is just a tiny fraction in comparison to the damage large industrialized nations have caused, we believe we must work to set an example. It isn't a fair situation. Some of the world's poorest countries, such as Bolivia, have shown much more initiative, concern and decisiveness about supporting initiatives to create awareness and restore our Earth's health than the countries that are largely responsible for degrading the atmosphere. As a symbolic gesture of our support (both online and offline) for these and other agencies that are actively working to create awareness, educate, and motivate Bolivians and all of us to live in harmony with our Earth, we changed our white website background to green, and our cream-colored navigation buttons to green as well when BoliviaBella turned 2 years old in June 2009. There's another reason our background is now a dark green. Did you know that websites with white or light backgrounds use more wattage? The brighter your computer screen, the more electricity you are using. It's one of the reasons search engines like Google offer you the option of searching with their site on a dark background - Google's is called www.blackle.com! Did you even know it existed? BoliviaBella.com will voluntarily post a website page for any non-profit organization that is working to help protect our Earth in Bolivia, educate about climate change, and reverse the effects of climate change. It's as easy as sending in the text you'd like to share, your logo and a one or more photos. If your organization would like a page posted, contact us. A special message from your webmaster
This America.gov Video Player requires the Adobe Flash 8 plugin or higher. Download the most recent Adobe Flash Player here. When we look for ways to justify how careless we are with our environment, we say "Everyone else is doing it." I'm waiting for the day when each of us will actively protect our environment and we'll say it's because "Everyone else is doing it." Why should you go green with us? Learn more about Bolivia here.
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